Homestay & Airport pick up Information
Y.E.S. International helps place MiraCosta College students with wonderful host families in the MiraCosta College district. However, Y.E.S. International is not affiliated nor does it represent MiraCosta College. We are a private housing company. For more information please call Y.E.S. International at
(619) 450-4675 or email us at info@yeseslinternational.com
Y.E.S. ESL INTERNATIONAL coordinates host home placements for international students wishing to experience the American way of life and build cross-cultural friendships. Y.E.S. has placed hundreds of international students with hosts in California. Our staff is dedicated to ensuring that you have a positive homestay experience. We support you even after your placement. Students who are flexible and open-minded about adapting to newenvironments will be the most successful in this program.
Our Host Family
Hosts are personally interviewed in their home, screened and selected for the program. Host homes are typically located within a 5-9 mile radius. Students must be prepared to take the bus to school. Hosts are a variety of ages and can be families with children,single adults, single parents, couples without children, or retired people.
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Total Monhly Payments | Placement Fee |
| Room Only | $550 per month | $250 |
| Room plus two meals per day | $650 per month | $250 |
*You are allowed to change your host family one time.
Home Stay fee includes your room, meals (two meals a day on weekdays, three on weekends, holidays and during the school breaks) and utilities (Gas &Electric, water, internet connection). Please let your host family know of any food allergies or food you do not like. Please inform your host family earlier if you will not be home for supper, or if you would like to have your supper later than the family for the particular day so a plate can be set aside for you.
Telephone Calls
Local calls: please limit your phone conversation with your friends in local area to 5 to 10 minutes so that your host family has a chance to make and receive calls, also.
Long distance calls: All long distance phone calls have to be made collect. If you do not want to call collect, call for operator’s assistance to get time and change so you can pay your host family right after your telephone conversation. Helpful hint: For long-term students (more than 4 months), it might be easier for you to get your own telephone and line at your own experience so that you can use the telephone any time you want to, and that your host family doesn't worry about the bill or receiving calls.
Water and Energy
Please conserve water and energy: Both are very expensive! California is experiencing a water shortage, and everybody is asked to limit water use. That is why we are asking you to take short showers and turn the light off when you leave your room. Please take your car to a car wash when it needs a wash.
Personal Laundry
Keep your dirty clothes in a basket or plastic bag provided in your room. Your host family does not have to do your laundry. Please ask where and which day of week you can do your laundry. It is also your responsibility to wash your bed linens.
Maintenance
Keeping your room and your bathroom clean and orderly is your responsibility. Your toiletries should be kept neatly in the bathroom. Please take short showers. Do not throw any foreign object into a toilet bowl.
Smoking and Alcohol
Both smoking and drinking alcoholic beverages are not permitted in the house.
Music
If you wish to listen to loud music in your room, please use headphones.
Television
Please ask your host about rule for the usage of TV and VCR
Visitors
When you wish to invite a friend for a visit, ask your host family first. Please do not bring friends home for supper without permission of your host family. Please do not let a friend of opposite sex in to your bedroom, or spend a night. If your friend is visiting for the evening, please make sure that he/she leaves by 11:00 pm at the least.
Consideration
Your host family is under no obligation to drive you around anywhere.
Departure Time
On the day of your departure, please have all of your bags packed and your room cleaned, so that the new student will have the room available. If it is necessary for you to stay an extra night or two and your host family has the room, you are required to pay your host family per night. If the room is not available for you, you need to make your own arrangements with a hotel or friends. When you plan on leaving your host family, at least two weeks advance notice is required.
Problems, Complaints
If, for any reason, you feel that the host family is not doing what you expected and you feel confused, talk it over with your host family first. When you still need some help to solve the problem, please contact Y.E.S. ESL INTERNATIONAL, INC. at anytime.
Abuse toward the host family causing them to be extremely upset, or of extra unnecessary expense may result in an immediate termination of your home stay with a part or all of the refundable room deposit withheld. Every effort will be made to work out all problems before the termination occurs.
Airport Pick up Information
| Airport | Fee |
| San Diego (SAN) | $100 |
| Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) | $200 |
| John Wayne (SNA) | $180 |
| Long Beach(LGB) | $200 |
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